oVirt Community Newsletter: July-August, 2016

Not sure how it was in your part of the world, but by golly it sure was hot in North America. But the weather was no match for the global oVirt team, who followed up on the June launch of oVirt 4.0 with solid new releases, a new oVirt sub-project, and participation in the 2016 KVM Forum! It's been a busy summer, so here's what happened in July and August 2016: ----------------- Software Releases ----------------- oVirt 4.0.3 Final Release is now available http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.3/ New oVirt-Live (4.0.3) is available for download http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/040577.html oVirt 4.0.4 First Release Candidate is now available http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2016-September/000288.html Announcing the oVirt Engine DR Sub-project http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/announcing-the-ovirt-engine-dr-subproject/ ---------------- In the Community ---------------- Up and Running with oVirt 4.0 and Gluster Storage http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4-0-and-glust... Monitoring Improvements in oVirt http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/monitoring-improvements-in-ovirt/ Manage Your Hosted Engine Hosts Deployment Via Engine http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/Manage-Your-Hosted-Engine-Hosts-Deploym... oVirt Engine 4.0 Installation Issues on Fedora 24 http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/ovirt-engine-4-setup-in-fedora24/ Subclusters in oVirt 4.0 - Label-Based VM to Host Affinity http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/affinity-labels/ Editable Field Annotations Consolidation http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/annotations-consolidation-blog/ Dependency Injection and Mockito http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/dependency-injection-and-mockito/ Application-Scoped Tests for oVirt with Arquillian http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/application-scoped-tests-for-ovirt-with... ------------------------------------ Deep Dives and Technical Discussions ------------------------------------ Self-service portals and virtualization http://red.ht/2am0xaE Technical info on oVirt agent and SSO http://bit.ly/2c4R1K2 How to handle security risks in Red Hat virtualization environments http://tek.io/2c4S0d2 oVirt 4.0 mit neuem Dashboard [German] http://bit.ly/2c4S8JC ---------------------- KVM Forum 2016: Slides ---------------------- Kernel Protection Using Hardware-Based Virtualization By Jun Nakajima http://bit.ly/2c4R2gW An Introduction to PCI Device Assignment with VFIO By Alex Williamson http://bit.ly/2c4RLyL CPU hotplug support in QEMU By Bharata B Rao http://bit.ly/2c4SmR7 As time goes by, analysing where we spend our cycles during exits By Christian Bornträger http://bit.ly/2c4S9gC Nesting KVM on s390x By David Hildenbrand http://bit.ly/2c4SkbT Status update on KVM-COLO FT By HailiangZhang http://bit.ly/2c4Sfou quo vadis virtio? By Michael S. Tsirkin http://bit.ly/2c4Tyny atomic.h weapons: the C11 memory model and QEMU By Paolo Bonzini http://bit.ly/2c4SVtZ Vhost with Guest vIOMMU By Peter Xu http://bit.ly/2c4Ttjz QEMU community growth through open source internships By Stefan Hajnoczi http://bit.ly/2c4SOhZ AMD’s virtualization memory encryption technology By Thomas Lendacky http://bit.ly/2c4TvIn Design of Vhost-pci By Wei Wang http://bit.ly/2c4TF2v Real Time KVM By Rik van Riel http://bit.ly/2c4TZy8 Qemu as a USB-MTP responder By Bandan Das http://bit.ly/2c4UeJu Light weight virtualization with QEMU/KVM By Chao Peng http://bit.ly/2c4SZtY KVM on System z: The Good, the Bad and the Weird By Cornelia Huck http://bit.ly/2c4TOD5 Libvirt Admin API - a different kind of management for libvirt By Erik Skultety http://bit.ly/2c4TTGT Backups with QEMU By Max Reitz http://bit.ly/2c4TAf8 TCG enhancements for PowerPC By Nikunj Dadhania http://bit.ly/2c4VMTE I/O prefetch cache as QEMU block filter driver By Pavel Butsykin http://bit.ly/2c4Ux72 QEMU support for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture By Sagar Karandikar http://bit.ly/2c4T3K2 Performant Security Hardening of KVM By Steve Rutherford http://bit.ly/2c4TC6G Microsoft Failover Clustering on KVM By Vadim Rozenfeld http://bit.ly/2c4Trsa VMBus (Hyper-V) devices in QEMU/KVM By Роман Каган http://bit.ly/2c4V1Kt -- Brian Proffitt Principal Community Analyst Open Source and Standards @TheTechScribe 574.383.9BKP